What happened on 25 June?

15 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1950 Korean War US-led UN forces vs North Korea and China; ends in armistice with Korea still divided.
2. 1950 North Korea invades South Kim Il-sung's forces cross the 38th parallel; UN troops arrive within weeks; opens Korean War.
3. 1947 Anne Frank's Diary Diary of a young girl hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam; published 1947; translated into ~70 languages.
4. 1857 Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal Charles Baudelaire's poetry collection — central work of Symbolist and modern French verse.
5. 1991 Slovenia and Croatia declare independence The two westernmost republics leave the federation on the same day. The Yugoslav army moves against Slovenia within 48 hours and gives up within ten days — but in Croatia, where 60
6. 1846 Repeal of the Corn Laws Peel's Conservative government repeals tariffs on grain after Irish Famine; ushers in era of British free trade and splits the party.
7. 1975 Indian Emergency Indira Gandhi suspends civil liberties for 21 months; sterilisation drives and press censorship.
8. 1895 Lord Salisbury's third premiership The Diamond Jubilee, the Boer War, and the last prime minister to govern from the House of Lords.
9. 1910 Stravinsky's Firebird Ballet on a Russian folktale that launched Stravinsky's international career.
10. 1530 Augsburg Confession Foundational Lutheran statement of faith presented to Charles V.
11. 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn Sioux and Cheyenne wipe out Custer's command; turning point in the Plains Indian Wars.
12. 1903 Born: George Orwell English novelist and essayist; author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
13. 1975 Portugal's African empire ends Within eighteen months of the Carnation Revolution — itself brought on by thirteen years of unwinnable colonial war — Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and finally Angola go free in
14. 1982 Blade Runner released Ridley Scott's neo-noir science-fiction film of replicants in a rainy Los Angeles.
15. 1900 Dunhuang Library Cave opened A Daoist caretaker stumbles on a walled-up cave of 60,000 manuscripts sealed since c. 1000 — including the world's oldest dated printed book; Aurel Stein carts much of it to London